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Andrew Burgin As the referendum result was announced at Glastonbury Festival there were spontaneous demonstrations by young festival goers, hugely dismayed at the outcome. Many of those protesting won’t have voted – only 36% of 18-24 years olds went to the ballot box – but those that did voted in overwhelming numbers for Remain. Many […] Read more »

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Mexico City last Sunday (26 June) to protest the killing of at least 11 teachers and student teachers who are fighting the government’s reactionary educational ‘reform’. Students and their parents joined the teachers, as did telecommunication workers, striking medical workers, oil workers and lecturers from […] Read more »

Neil Faulkner writes: Parts of the Left are in denial about the Brexit vote. Many socialists campaigned for Leave on the basis that the EU is controlled by bankers and bureaucrats, that it is hard-wired for austerity, privatisation, and financialisation, and that a crisis for this mega-project of the political and corporate elite would be […] Read more »

Dave Landau from Islington Left Unity reports on the shocking escalation in hate crime since the referendum The Referendum campaign was from the outset poisonous and immigration was always at its centre.  Cameron was bounced into promising a referendum by pressure from UKIP riding a wave of anti-migrant sentiment. On both sides the mainstream campaigns […] Read more »

Britain faces a deep political crisis following the Referendum. The far right is resurgent, the Conservative Party is heading in a more right-wing direction, Jeremy Corbyn faces a coup from within his own party, and there has been a significant increase in racist and xenophobic abuse. Millions of us want to resist this turn to […] Read more »

Left Unity Executive Committee has issued the following statement on the outcome of the EU Referendum: Left Unity deplores the Leave outcome of the EU Referendum. This referendum came from pressure from the far right – driven by anti-immigration sentiment, fuelled by racism. This has been the most reactionary national campaign in British political history, […] Read more »

Graham Gifford interviews Tina Louise Rothery about her ongoing legal case against Cuadrilla It’s 9am on Day One of the new Brexit Britain, but as most of the UK is listening to the breaking news of Cameron’s resignation, a different drama is unfolding in Blackpool, Lancashire. Arriving at the County Courts, anti-fracking banners unfurl against […] Read more »

Neil Faulkner Taking a position on the EU Referendum was not easy. The in/out choice was essentially an argument inside the political and corporate elite about what was best for British capitalism. We do not wish to be ruled by either the City of London or the European Central Bank. Both are run by bankers. […] Read more »

Phil Hearse, 25 June 2016 Massive amounts of comment and analysis are emerging from the political Left and the left-of-centre commentariat. Some is sensible, some is full of half-truths and some is just fantasy. Let’s start with the fantasy wing of this debate. “A victory against austerity and neoliberalism” was the first response on the […] Read more »

On Sunday Spain goes to the polls – its second attempt to elect a government in six months. The prospects for the left are hugely increased by a newly united campaign from Izquierda Unida (United Left) and Podemos – together forming Unidos Podemos. Left Unity wishes them every success. Maite Mola, from the Izquierda Unida […] Read more »